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"REAL ESTATE CURES FOR WRITER’S BLOCK" a·...
disgusting location
  08/17/12
It reads like a meticulous description by Franzen of him giv...
Mind-boggling Menage Dysfunction
  08/17/12
you should definitely submit this to your Creative Writing p...
Demanding massive sweet tailpipe
  08/17/12
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autistic mentally impaired stag film tank
  08/17/12
he should title it "McBeef 2"
autistic mentally impaired stag film tank
  08/17/12
OFS
disgusting location
  08/17/12
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disgusting location
  08/28/12
Seems like a see-are way to get yourself reported to the aut...
Painfully honest exhilarant state
  08/17/12
"REAL ESTATE CURES FOR WRITER’S BLOCK" a&mi...
disgusting location
  08/28/12
it started off great, continued to be mediocre, and ended ba...
useless fuchsia athletic conference
  08/28/12
I immediately lost interest
Aquamarine Razzmatazz Locus Water Buffalo
  08/28/12
the last paragraph is awful
Passionate laser beams
  08/28/12


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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:25 PM
Author: disgusting location

"REAL ESTATE CURES FOR WRITER’S BLOCK"

a·mok [uh-muhk, uh-mok] noun

(among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder, a state of murderous frenzy.

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer an orange-haired joker gunned down the fourth wall of a Colorado cinema, and I didn’t know what I was still doing in Boston. I’m weird about shootings. The idea of killing people makes me sick, but when confronted with the rampages, the national tragedies, my impulse is to empathize not with mourning families or fallen victims, but with the perpetrator. He’s usually one of the losers or freaks, a social outcast, the kind of role I had always been assigned no matter my environment. What happened in Aurora had nothing to do with me, but I couldn’t help wondering who I would’ve become if luck hadn’t intervened, if it would’ve been me pulling the trigger instead, only in a different place at a different time.

Frank said it was the most morbid thought in the world. (But of course, how could he relate to the character of the underdog?)

Boston was bad enough. The sun rose at 6 in the morning, warming the black-tarred streets and mansard-roofed homes of a noiseless city. By the time I woke hours later, the temperature in our centrally air-conditioned penthouse unit had risen above 80 degrees, a result of leaving the windows open overnight for fresh air. A heatwave was sweeping through the country, its rays as indiscriminate as the aim of the joker, ravaging residents of coast and country alike. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything, least of all to write...

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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:27 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Menage Dysfunction

It reads like a meticulous description by Franzen of him giving some hobo a dark-alley blowjob.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21360789)



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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:28 PM
Author: Demanding massive sweet tailpipe

you should definitely submit this to your Creative Writing professor. it will lead to good things.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21360802)



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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:30 PM
Author: autistic mentally impaired stag film tank



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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:30 PM
Author: autistic mentally impaired stag film tank

he should title it "McBeef 2"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21360815)



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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:30 PM
Author: disgusting location

OFS

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Date: August 28th, 2012 3:56 PM
Author: disgusting location



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Date: August 17th, 2012 2:29 PM
Author: Painfully honest exhilarant state

Seems like a see-are way to get yourself reported to the authorities

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21360804)



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Date: August 28th, 2012 1:28 PM
Author: disgusting location

"REAL ESTATE CURES FOR WRITER’S BLOCK"

a·mok [uh-muhk, uh-mok] noun

(among members of certain Southeast Asian cultures) a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder, a state of murderous frenzy.

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer an orange-haired joker gunned down the fourth wall of a Colorado cinema, and I didn’t know what I was still doing in Boston. I’m weird about shootings. The idea of killing people makes me sick, but when confronted with the rampages, the national tragedies, my impulse is to empathize not with mourning families or fallen victims, but with the perpetrator. He’s usually one of the losers or freaks, a social outcast, the kind of role I had always been assigned no matter my environment. What happened in Aurora had nothing to do with me, but I couldn’t help wondering who I would’ve become if luck hadn’t intervened, if it would’ve been me pulling the trigger instead, only in a different place at a different time.

Frank said it was the most morbid thought in the world. (But of course, how could he relate to the character of the underdog?)

Boston was bad enough. The sun rose at 6 in the morning, warming the black-tarred streets and mansard-roofed homes of a noiseless city. By the time I woke hours later, the temperature in our centrally air-conditioned penthouse unit had risen above 80 degrees, a result of leaving the windows open overnight for fresh air. A heatwave was sweeping through the country, its rays as indiscriminate as the aim of the joker, ravaging residents of coast and country alike. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything, least of all to write...



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21442872)



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Date: August 28th, 2012 1:30 PM
Author: useless fuchsia athletic conference

it started off great, continued to be mediocre, and ended badly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21442877)



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Date: August 28th, 2012 1:33 PM
Author: Aquamarine Razzmatazz Locus Water Buffalo

I immediately lost interest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21442897)



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Date: August 28th, 2012 1:39 PM
Author: Passionate laser beams

the last paragraph is awful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2026084&forum_id=2#21442921)